From: Jack Brubaker (jack@jackbrubaker.com)
Date: 03/04/03-04:56:23 PM Z
One more thought Matti, watercolor paper with its rough texture is tricky to
coat thinly. Try smoother paper as a starter.
Jack
> From: Matti Koskinen <mjkoskin@koti.soon.fi>
> Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
> Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 21:34:09 +0200
> To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
> Subject: gum printing papers
>
> hi
>
> I'm having trouble with watercolor papers. The cheap one, that would be
> ideal for practising doesn't hold the pigments, they just get off from
> the surface. I bought two sheets of Saunders 300gsm paper and the prints
> are ok. But here one sheet costs $6 and as 99% of my prints fail, it's
> getting too expensive. What kind of paper should do the job well for
> practising? Does some sort of sizing help?
>
> Does anybody have a curve for producing digital negatives for gum print?
> I'm using Gimp, so a curve posted for cyanotype recently is the format
> I'm searching for.
>
> TIA
>
> -matti
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